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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console Lock out
Date: 6 Jul 1996 01:04:28 -0500
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Jesse Monroy (jmonroy@wco.com) wrote:
: 	It seems will flipping through one of the 12 virtual
: 	terminals we have hooked to the console, that a dead
: 	session locked up the keyboard. This seems to have
: 	been cured by unplugging and re-plugging in the keyboard.

: 	So, the highest possible problem might be that
: 	the keyboard is going to break soon. Barring that
: 	is there a possiblity that OS keyboard handler
: 	may have been corrupted logically (hosed)?

It's a long time since I've seen this (F6 as I remember).  What
version are we talking of *Jesse* ?

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....